Whitesince63 wrote:Sluffy, I’m perfectly aware of what committees do and I didn’t suggest he had mentioned what Labour would do just that he was hammering Truss for negotiating deals with Saudi Arabia despite their poor human rights record and obvious murder of Khashogi. He may very well find his own trade and business Secretary colleagues having to tread the same path before long so would he be asking them the same questions in the same off hand fashion?
I think you strongly implied it though!!!
Whitesince63 wrote:Bryant is an arrogant, self serving numpty who likes to use the cloak of parliamentary privilege to cast aspersions and make accusations against others. Regarding Truss, is he saying that Labour would end all trade with countries like Saudi Arabia who don’t have the same human rights beliefs and laws as we do because if he is the we’re going to lose a lot of trade? I actually think Truss handled it well and without breaching any trust which may exist with the Saudis. The guys an idiot and sadly reflective of most of his parliamentary colleagues on all sides of the house. Sits on committees because it makes him feel important when in reality he’s a nothing politician.
And I'd already made the point that sometimes you have to sit down with the Devil, if you want to or not!
Sluffy wrote:It is a little bit unfair to her to be honest (not that I am in any way a supporter of Truss) in the way you do say things that are relevant to the circumstances when you said them.
Clearly her comments about autocratic states with no human rights, were said at the time of Russia's invasion of the Ukraine.
If we stopped whatever energy supplies we had with Russia at the time, then clearly we had to go cap in hand to some country who could replace it for us - unfortunately apart from the US, they are all probably autocratic states with poor human rights themselves.
She should simply have been honest and say something like it was urgent that the UK had secured energy supplies and although we don't approve of Saudi's human rights record we had no alternative but to trade with them and hopefully influence them to improve their human rights performance in the future.
Instead she lied and made to look the moron she is.